AMERICA 250
REMEBRANCE. REVERANCE.
THE NEXT 250
RENEWAL. RECOGNITION.
mission
The America First Academy of Arts & Sciences™ (AFAAS™) is an independent, academy-governed institution established to recognize enduring excellence, service, and contribution to the American experiment across culture, leadership, innovation, and civic life.
The AFAAS™ academy establishes, governs, and confers distinct ceremonial formats, including the America First Awards™ — a recurring national broadcast cultural ceremony recognizing excellence across defined categories — and America First Honors™ — a formal national broadcast cultural conferral recognizing enduring lifetime contribution.
The Academy exists to celebrate enduring American civic and cultural excellence across institutions and generations.
authority
AFAAS™ serves as the governing and standards-setting body for its programs and recognitions.
programs and initiatives
- America First Honors™ — Invitation-only, lifetime recognitions conferred by the Academy’s trustees for enduring national legacy and civic-cultural impact.
- America First Awards™ — Academy-sanctioned recognitions highlighting exemplary national, civic, and cultural contribution, presented through a non-competitive, institutionally governed process.
- America First Journals™ — Academy-sanctioned archival and editorial documentation of local, state, and national civic and cultural impact, developed in phases.
institutional posture
- The Academy operates with deliberate restraint.
- Programs are developed quietly, aligned institutionally, and introduced only when standards and stewardship are secured.
- The Academy is structured to serve future generations through enduring standards, not momentary recognition.
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
The America First Academy of Arts & Sciences™ exists to safeguard and celebrate enduring civic and cultural excellence — stewarded across generations and sustained by the American spirit.
America First Academy of Arts & Sciences™ (AFAAS™) is an independent, academy-governed cultural institution.
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Distribution, broadcast, and media partners — including America First Network™ — have no role in honoree selection, award determinations, or Academy governance.
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